dc23

I'm posting this here as well, nobody is getting back to me in "Install Related". Hope that's OK.

Could use a little guidance, here. The sub is a Type X and the amp is a Phoenix Gold Tantrum 1200.1. No idea what I'm doing.

The kid I bought the sub from didn't have the jumpers shown in the owner's manual, and every store in Kingston has been no help at all. Do I even need the jumpers? Can I manage without them?

Plus the PG amp has two sets of speaker terminals, wired internally in parallel, it says in the manual. So not sure what that's about.

As I understand it, I can wire a dual 4-ohm sub to either 8 ohms (in series) or 2 ohms (in parallel). I guess I want 2. Although I think I might be happy with 4, in which case I should hang onto the dual 2-ohm Type R I'm trying to sell. Only I think I'll be having a stupid amount of power for my needs anyway.

So what do I do? I'm attaching pics of the business end of each device, and as you can see the sub came with these little bits of cable already installed. I assume they're acting as jumpers, so does that mean I don't need the official Alpine ones? And how is it wired? 2-ohms or 8? Can I just plug my cables into those two holes on the bottom and get on with it?

Sorry if this is stuff I should know, but I'm just getting started again after no car audio for 25 years, and I want to get it right.

thekingdonecome

Okay well i own the type X so i might be able to help haha the left sde of those 4 inputs on the subwoofer are your positive leads on your coils (VC1 +, VC2+) and the right side is the negative leads (VC1-,VC2-). The way he has the wires hooke up now is in a parallel circuit meaning your subwoofer has a 2ohm impedance because of the dual 4ohm voice coil, same with mine. just hook up your positive wire on the bottom of the left side terminals (you'll see it) and the negative under the right side of terminals, which is the answer to your question "Can I just plug my cables into those two holes on the bottom and get on with it?"

For your amp im assuming the outer inputs are the ones that will give you a bridged(whatever its called) signal (thats what my amps inputs look like and i did the same) so just hook up your postive and negative wires into the outer most corresponding inputs.

In simpler terms, run your positive and negative wire from the two holes on the bottom and hook them up to the outside inputs. hopefully that helps?

dc23

Absolutely it does. Figured that was it, but wanted to be sure. Thank you very very much.

More questions will no doubt follow as I get up and running.

Anybody wanna buy a nice Type R? Or trade it for the right Alpine h/u?

thekingdonecome

haha im good man thanks though.